>One wishes that Word for OS X, or AppleWorks for OS X, or InDesign >for OS X, allowed one to input text in Unicode. But one step at a >time, I guess. :-)
I've been playing around with the java-based ThinkFree Write (part of ThinkFree Office, 30 day free trial, $50 purchase) http://www.thinkfree.com/ Although there are various things TF Write cannot yet do, it appears you can input from all Mac OS X keyboards, Unicode and otherwise, plus the Character Palette (BMP only, however), format in various ways, and save results as .doc, .rtf, or UTF-8 .html files. No luck with UTF-8 plain text or copy/paste, but still seems a lot more capable than Word X. I'd be curious what others think of it.
